Identifier: moralemblemswith00catsj (find matches)
Title: Moral emblems : with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie : with illustrations freely rendered, from designs found in their works
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Cats, Jacob, 1577-1660 Farley, Robert Venne, Adriaen Pietersz. van de, 1589-1662, ill Leighton, John, 1822-1912, ill Pigot, Richard
Subjects: Emblems
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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BEWARE, PROTH IS NOT BEER.-^. TOUT PAR AMOUR, RIEN PAR FORCE. Met onwillige honden ist quaet ha^en vangen.
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WITH UNWILLING HOUNDS ITS HARD TOCATCH HARES. OT far from here there lives a Maid,Who, as Ive heard by many faid.Will bring a good dowr of gold and landTo him on whom fhe beftows her hand.A buxom, cheerful, buftling lafs.She leads her fathers kine to grafs, NO STRIVING AGAINST STREAM. HAPPY IS THE \A/OOINa THAT IS NOT LONG 1 SI DOING. She bakes and she brews, she spins and she sews,And all a good housewifes duty knows.Nimble and neat of limb is she, Good temperd too as a lass can be ;With pouting red lips, and a cheek that glowsWith the freshest hues of the opening rose :No burgher maid in Leyden townCan match her eyes of lustrous brown ;And were I again in my youthful prime,To woo and to win her Id lose no time. I wish our Claes, that son of mine,Would but to my advice incline.And court her close like a sensible lad, While she and her dowr are yet to be had :For oft Ive heard her father say : Whoeer she choose, hell not say nay ; h 0) < 0 But give her a well stockd farm and land,A

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